New Activity
Play Fill in the Blanks Game
5 interconnected concepts :

Reference : Where do I find information ?

____________________ : How do I find it and how do I make judgements ?

Skills : How do I find it ( again ) and is the information up to date ?

Quality : Am I sure I have the right information , is it reliable ?

____________________ : How do I reuse that information in context and transparently ?

An online community for your patients :

Internet has transformed the definition of community for patients

Sharing stories about conditions / diseases / therapies and personal experiences

Social media drives opinion / ideas / sharing / impact

Patients have a ____________________ to voice their feelings of joy , alienation , bewilderment , and apprehension

THIS CONCEPT IS NO LONGER SEPARATE TO YOU !

Research grants now stipulate patient ____________________ in research

Primary producers , pure consumers , hubs to synthesize and ____________________ information

Large impact of one tweet / user / mention

Content can be hijacked , what is the user ? s motives ?

<10% amount of content shared is ? academic ?

Buy my advice , book , cure , remedy , crystals

DISAGREE ? CONSPIRACY - FAKE NEWS

your place in your community :

____________________ on your time as health professionals may leave communication gaps between you and your patients

Support groups for patients can ____________________ for a lack of education and support

Websites / apps / social media

Serve as valuable ____________________ of communication
Share practical ideas
Emotional support
Comparison of treatments
Where do you fit in ?

At patient fingertips :

Accurate and inaccurate health information

Vital tool for communication and education

Can relieve fears and answer questions

Advocate patient empowerment

Connect information in ____________________ social spaces , physical spaces and time zones

Note : Social exclusion from previous lecture Not everyone is online

A patient comes to see you with pages printed from the Internet or a web site open on their phone

Spent time online looking the latest information on a particular disease / procedure

Prepared to ask you about this information and expects answers

Could this be poor quality or misinformation ? ( fake news , ____________________ ! )

What do you do next ?

The National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) the HSE ( Local to Ireland ) and others will provide good quality information for patients ? ? ? .

WHAT IS THE NLM ?

The United States National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) , operated by the United States federal government , is the world's largest medical library .

The collections of the National Library of Medicine include more than seven million books , journals , ____________________ ____________________ , manuscripts , microfilms , photographs , and images on medicine and related sciences , including some of the world's oldest and rarest works .

Two sites are of interest in this lecture :
NLM hosts ____________________ and MEDLINEplus

WHAT IS MEDLINE ?

MEDLINE ( Medical Literature ____________________ and ____________________ System Online ) international literature database of life sciences and biomedical information

Compiled by the U . S . National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) , MEDLINE is freely available on the Internet

Searchable via PubMed

Medline is primarily for healthcare professionals

Medicine , physiotherapy , nursing , pharmacy , dentistry , veterinary medicine , and other healthcare disciplines

Most literature in biology and biochemistry , and fields with no direct medical connection , such as ____________________ ____________________ .

WHAT IS MEDLINE PLUS ?

A website containing health information from the world's largest medical library , the United States National Library of Medicine

The site is intended to be used by health care providers AND patients

Up - to - date , ____________________ information

Information from US National Institutes of Health ( ____________________ ) and other federal agencies , professional associations and nonprofit health organisations

Not the only good source of information for patients but its a good place to start for you as ____________________

WHAT INFORMATION IS USED ?

Using guidelines , NLM selects Educational sites that are

Appropriate to the audience
Well organized
Easy to use
Do not promote a product or service
Dependable ( with an ____________________ board whose names are listed )
Consistently available
Have reliable and maintained links

MEDLINEplus also connects the user to medical dictionaries , hospitals , directories of physicians and dentists , consumer information about prescription drugs

The International Statistical Classification Of Diseases And Related Health Problems ( ICD ) :

ICD is published by the World Health ____________________ , in version 11

Detailed description of diseases and injuries , diagnosis and given a unique code

Used world - wide for morbidity and mortality statistics
Morbidity - Instance of disease
Mortality ? Cause of death

Designed to promote international ____________________ in the collection , processing , classification , and presentation of statistics

Assists with automated decision support in medicine